At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 702 The mystery of life experience
"Yuanji, stop!" Li Jiancheng yelled several times, but Li Yuanji continued to walk away as if he didn't hear it, his face was livid with anger, and said angrily: "It's unreasonable, Yuanji is becoming more and more irrelevant now. "

Li Shimin kept silent, and Li Jiancheng restrained the anger on his face when he saw this, and sighed softly: "When my mother passed away, Yuan Ji was still young, and my father was too busy with business to discipline him, so I blame my brother for being incompetent. Yuan Ji became like this because of neglect of guidance."

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "Shimin used to be a knight-errant, he only cared about making friends with heroes from all over the world, but he didn't fulfill his responsibilities as an elder brother. I can't completely blame the elder brother."

Li Jiancheng stretched out his hand to press one of Li Shimin's shoulders, and said sincerely: "Shimin, just now Yuan Ji said some exaggerated things, and the eldest brother heard some of them vaguely, and he was also very annoyed. Can you forgive Yuan Ji, and don't make trouble with your father. During this period of time, your father has been working hard on state affairs and often stays up at night. If you let him know that there is a quarrel between you and Yuan Ji brothers, I'm afraid you will be even more worried That's it. We are both ministers and sons of men, so it's fine if we can't share your father's worries, how can you let father worry about us brothers?"

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Brother is right, Yuan Ji is just young and energetic. Shimin actually didn't take those words to heart, and he didn't even intend to make trouble in front of Father."

Li Jiancheng breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. Now that Gao Qi is powerful, we brothers should love each other, unite and cooperate, and share the worries for the father. By the way, the father has ordered me to take care of you and He Min." Regarding the princess's marriage, seeing that Shimin is finally getting married, I am also very happy, big brother, and I will do my best to make your marriage a success."

Li Shimin's heart warmed up, and he held Li Jiancheng's hand and said, "Thank you, brother."

Li Jiancheng smiled and said: "This is what the elder brother should do. Shimin has also worked hard on this trip to Turkic. During this period of time, take a good rest and be the groom's official with peace of mind."

Li Shimin let go of his hand, nodded and said: "Okay, I am indeed a little tired, I will leave everything to my elder brother." After saying that, he bowed his hands in a salute, turned and drove away.

Li Jiancheng watched Li Shimin go away, and then chased in the direction where Li Yuanji left. As a result, he saw Li Yuanji behind a rockery before going far.

At this time, Li Yuanji was standing by the pool next to the rockery, with a dark face, when he saw his elder brother Li Jiancheng, he turned his head and left immediately.Li Jiancheng's face darkened, and he shouted sharply: "Stop!"

Li Yuanji stopped in his tracks, and said coldly, "Has His Highness the Crown Prince played enough prestige?"

Li Jiancheng walked over, walked around in front of Li Yuanji, frowned and said: "Brother scolded you for your own good, not to show your prestige. You abandoned Jinyang and fled back to Chang'an a few days ago. The civil and military people in the court have great opinions. I impeach you." Not a few, there are even ministers asking the emperor to deprive you of your title."

Li Yuanji's complexion changed drastically, and he said angrily, "It's that meddling bastard, I'm going to kill him now."

Li Jiancheng stared sharply and said: "Shut up, you still don't know how to restrain yourself in this limelight. If you cause trouble again, I'm afraid even the emperor won't be able to protect you. At that time, you will be deposed as a commoner. Look at you." What to do!"

Li Yuanji's heart trembled when he heard the words, and a trace of fear finally appeared in his eyes, and he said in a stuttering manner: "Brother, Li Shimin won't complain to his father, will he?"

Li Jiancheng saw that he had finally frightened the naughty brother, so he calmed down and said: "Don't worry, Shimin has promised me that he won't make trouble with my father, but you don't want to provoke Shimin again, you The words you said are indeed extremely stupid, if they reach the ears of the father, the father will definitely not spare you."

Li Yuanji heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said a little unconvinced: "Brother, Yuan Ji made a mistake. Turkic women really smell like sheep."

"You still say!" Li Jiancheng said angrily.

Li Yuanji snorted and said: "If you don't say it, you won't say it, but Yuanji has to remind elder brother that Li Shimin has been refusing to marry because his childhood sweetheart fiancée was robbed by Gao Changqing. Is it strange that I fell in love with a Turkic woman?"

Li Jiancheng frowned and said, "What's so strange?"

Li Yuanji rolled his eyes and said, "Isn't that strange? He has good looks and good looks. He doesn't like well-known ladies who are knowledgeable about books and etiquette, but he likes rough and vulgar Yi women. Hey, it's not because of military power. Li Shimin was defeated by Gao Changqing, and his father lifted his military power and ordered him to marry and start a family. In order to get back the military power as soon as possible, Li Shimin even went hungry for Turkic women, bah!

Moreover, Li Shimin's prestige in the army is already high. Once he is married to the Turkic princess, with the help of the Turkic people, I am afraid that he will be more valued by his father. Don't you worry about it at all, big brother? "

Li Jiancheng's complexion slowly sank: "Yuanji, why are you so hostile to your second brother?"

Li Yuanji curled his lips and said, "Li Shimin is not my second brother, he is a bastard!"

Li Jiancheng's complexion changed drastically, he turned his head and looked around hastily, and walked quickly around the rockery, and found no outsiders, so he lowered his voice and said sharply: "Yuanji, what nonsense you are talking about, if it gets out, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you!"

Li Yuanji said disapprovingly: "I'm not talking nonsense, Li Shimin is a bastard, a bastard born by his mother stealing a man behind his father's back!"

Li Jiancheng was furious, grabbed Li Yuanji's skirt, his face was a little distorted, and said fiercely: "Li Yuanji, do you know what you are talking about? You are insulting your own biological mother. In Emperor Father's ears, I'm afraid that even if he spoils you again, he will break your dog legs!"

It was the first time that Li Yuanji saw such a terrifying expression on his usually gentle and elegant elder brother, and he couldn't help turning pale, and said in a stuttering voice: "Brother, Yuan Ji speaks unscrupulously, please spare Yuan Ji this trouble!"

Li Jiancheng glanced left and right, grabbed Li Yuanji's hand and shouted, "Come with me!"

Li Jiancheng brought Li Yuanji back to the East Palace, entered the secret room and closed the door, and then asked coldly, "Tell me, who made the rumor?"

Li Yuanji faltered and said: "No... man-made rumors, I guessed it myself."

"Why!" Li Jiancheng's eyes became sharper.

Li Yuanji bit his teeth and said: "I heard from Nanny Chen that when my mother was pregnant with Li Shimin and Li Xuanba, my father happened to be working in another place, and I heard that my mother was about to give birth to two babies. Isn't it strange that Yue left Chang'an and went to Wugong Bieyuan specifically to raise her baby?"

The Wugong Bieyuan mentioned by Li Yuanji refers to Wugong County, which is not far from Chang'an, but not very close. It is located on the north bank of the Wei River in the upper reaches of Chang'an, where the nobles of Guanlong live together. The Li family also has a Bieyuan in Wugong County. , Li Shimin was born in Wugong Bieyuan.

Li Jiancheng frowned. The year Li Shimin was born, he was only ten years old. Now he is nearly 30 years old, and he can't remember clearly when he was a child, and Li Yuanji was not even born at that time. These things are obviously He had inquired about it with the old servant in the mansion.

"That doesn't mean anything!" Li Jiancheng said coldly.

"But I heard from Nanny Chen that the servant who was in charge of serving his mother in the Wugong Bieyuan at first reported to the family that he had given birth to a young son, but when he returned home after a full moon, it was a pair of twins. What do you say? No wonder, and Li Shimin has always been in good health, but Li Xuanba is a tuberculosis ghost, so it is even more strange."

Li Jiancheng's eyes flashed, and he said lightly: "Our Li family ancestors have inherited qi disease and wind disease, which just shows that Shimin and Xuanba are both born to father. They became twins, probably the servant who reported the letter was too anxious and didn't hear clearly for a while."

Li Yuanji curled his lips and said: "Such an important matter can be wrong, big brother, do you believe it? Moreover, the midwife who gave birth to my mother disappeared later, and almost all the servants who were present at that time were dismissed by my mother. So far no whereabouts have been seen, all of this is too suspicious!"

Li Jiancheng was silent when he heard the words!

Seeing this, Li Yuanji added embellishment and authenticity: "My eldest brother and I are very similar to the father, Li Shimin is not like that at all, let alone Li Xuanba, a tuberculosis ghost."

Li Jiancheng said in a deep voice: "Shimin looks after his mother, but Xuanba is so thin because of illness."

Li Yuanji curled his lips and said, "I'm deceiving myself, anyway, I think Li Shimin is a bastard."

Li Jiancheng glared at Li Yuanji and said: "Nonsense, father knows better than anyone else whether Shimin is born or not."

"That's not necessarily true. After all, men can't have children. Father, he was deceived..."

Li Jiancheng immediately reprimanded Li Yuanji sharply, because in his mind, his mother, Dou, was always a virtuous and virtuous woman who abided by women's morals. His relationship with him has always been very good. When his mother died of illness in Zhuojun, his father was seriously ill because of it.

Li Jiancheng stared at Li Yuanji and said coldly: "Yuanji, elder brother knows that you have always held resentment towards mother, but you can't slander mother's name, remember, don't mention this matter again in the future, this is my advice to you, It's also for your own good, do you hear me clearly?"

Li Yuanji remained silent until Li Jiancheng raised his voice a few beats and asked again, then he reluctantly nodded and said, "Listen clearly!"

It turned out that when Li Yuanji was born, Dou was unwilling to raise him because of his ugly appearance, so he ordered his maid Chen Shanyi to take it away and discard it. However, the latter couldn't bear it and secretly kept Li Yuanji to be raised. Only then did Yuanji survive.

So Li Yuanji never got close to his biological mother, Dou Shi, but Li Yuan, probably out of pity, loved this youngest who lacked maternal love, and finally spoiled him into a playboy.

Therefore, not only a loving mother often loses children, but also a loving father. It is obviously not a good idea to pamper and pamper children too much!

(End of this chapter)